That's fucking awesome. That cock deserved it.

Too bad he didn't end up on fire.

Good to see the little guy triumph...

so we're all agreed? it was gods way of explaining that throwing a still-living mouse onto a fire is potentially rather cruel...

No one was injured? What about the mouse? Is he stable, dead, in critical condition? Nobody knows, do they?

here in new zealand you can be charged for running over an animal (rat, possum, whatever) on the road and not stopping to render assistance.

I dont know what the laws say about burnt mice though.

I'm trying to compare this to the half-hour I spent peeling a mouse off mousepaper so I could let it go outside.

Philo

I did the same last week. It didn't turn out so well, unfortunately.

I beat a rat to death in an old apartment with a piece of 4x2

cleaning up was a bitch :)

At work, we once chased a mouse down the hall to try to catch it and turn it loose outside. It ran behind the fridge in the lunch room, so we rolled that away from the wall, and tried to corner it... The poor little guy dropped dead!

mmm...with us it's usually a matter of trying to save the mice from the cat(s). Last summer we'd find undentified internal organs (mouse/small bird size) on the patio most mornings...

Mouse paper isn't the best way, and stressfull for the mouse. Something like this is better:

http://www.abundantearth.com/store/mousetrap1.html

There are others. And they cost less than a half-hour charge out rate :)

Hey thanks, el - I'm gonna buy some of those and switch them out.

Philo

What kind of sick bastard would throw a mouse onto a fire? I'm glad his house burned down.

My cats take care of the problem quite nicely, although a few weeks ago they killed a mouse but didn't eat it, so I found the petrified remains in my closet. At least it wasn't still running around.

They are cute, though ... if they didn't leave poop all over the house it wouldn't bother me to see one once in a while.

I saw tiny footprints in the snow out back my house last snowfall, so I guess I should pick up a couple of those big green humane traps to see what I can snare.

It looks sort of like that mouse in the picture is sitting on someone's teeth....

If only he had perished in the fire he could've had a Darwin.

Looks like a gloved hand, to me.

Sidebar: When I went to McDonald's in Plainville last night, there was a pair of surgical gloves on the ground right beside where I parked.

Yeah.

One place I lived there was a family mouse (mother and 4 little ones) that was walking on my bed when I woke up.

I brought them to the woods after catching them in a bag with some food.

Later we had a solitary mouse living in the kitchen for months. It became so tame that it didn't hide when we entered the kitchen. It never bothered us.

Hmm. He was Burning Leaves, outside his house, in very dry and windy conditions?

I think the mouse was just an excuse. There was no mouse, he just wanted to seem like a lesser idiot.